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Tomsmith Says Let Gaa Scrap The Allstars Or Confine It To Two Players Per County - 2 Like(s)
Personally, I lost interest in the All-Star awards many years ago and I never watch the ceremony. Originally, the awards were devised as a way of rewarding the best footballers and hurlers in their position regardless of how successful your county was. Throughout the years, players such as Kevin O'Brien (Wicklow, Matty Forde (Wexford) and Declan Browne (Tipperary) won All-Star awards. I've never met anybody who would disagree that these three players didn't deserve their All-Star award. If those three players were playing football today, they wouldn't win an All-Star award due to the fact that their county isn't good enough to reach an All-Ireland final. Even counties who win provincial titles only win one award on average. The other farce concerning the awards is that the team who win the All-Ireland are given more awards than the beaten team. The result of one game determines if a player is worth an All-Star. Previously, the merits of a player winning an All-Star was determined across the whole season and that players consistency throughout the season. All players who win an All-Star are exceptional players but I'd argue that there are players who have won awards in recent times who aren't the best players in their position, in the year they were given the award. I think the award criteria should be reviewed and revised as I don't think the current system is fair and discriminates against players who are brilliant individual players but have no chance of winning an All-Star award.
wicklowsupport (National) - 31/10/2026 11:35:00
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Well done to all that won All-Stars, and to the 6 from Mayo. Great for them individually, something that they have for life.
It is a bit of flawed system, but I dont know how you get a system that everyone would be happy with. Not sure how McBrien or Paudie Clifford didnt win one.
Fairplay to Ryan O Donoghue, I do think he deserved player of the year, he was unreal for Mayo this year. I would add if David Clifford had won it, I wouldn't have disagreed with that either, unbelievable footballer.
tommy132 (National) - 31/10/2026 10:21:44
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Tomsmith Says Let Gaa Scrap The Allstars Or Confine It To Two Players Per County - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "I don't think there's been any major shift in selection strategy, that you speak of. All Ireland winners always won more awards than runnersup, since inception in 1971. I'm fairly sure Offaly won more than Galway that year, and that was year1 selection. There's surely been very few all Ireland champion winning sides since 1971 in either code that didn't claim the highest volume of allstar selections in the year of their success. Also, players of the calibre of Browne and Forde could well win awards in the current era, why couldn't they?" Apart from the 1st year when there were 9 different counties, there were only 4 other years with 8, one being 1972, and this year being the most recent.
When Browne won his 1st there were only 5 different counties, and when Forde won his there were 7, 6 when Browne won his second.
Since 2011 up until now there have only been 6 different counties represented twice, with 4 or 5 being the norm.
So this year was a bit of a throwback year with 8 different counties.
Viking66 (National) - 31/10/2026 13:01:59
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